Land Ho!

Why Robert Redford’sAll Is Lost Really Pissed Off Louis C.K.

Louis C.K. at the helm of his ship, not making the same bonehead mistakes as Redford.

One thing you may not know about Louis C.K.: the man owns a yacht. He’s showed it off on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Web series and talked about it on late-night television. So when the comedian stopped by NPR today, host Terry Gross asked Louis C.K., a yacht owner who takes tremendous pride in his sailing skills, what he thought about last year’s Robert Redford sailing drama All Is Lost.

As it turns out: Louis C.K. really did not love it. Per the conversation:

I didn’t like that movie because . . . you know, you shouldn’t see
movies about something you know about because I’m very into the
boating and I know how to navigate. There [are] a lot of people better
than me but I can get my boat all the way up the Hudson and I can get
it out, you know, I can get it to Cape Cod from New York.

[. . .] I’m not nearly as experienced as a lot of captains. But this
guy in that movie, he made so many stupid choices. So every 10 seconds
I was just yelling at the screen.

What exactly are some of Louis C.K.’s critiques of Redford’s sailing technique?

You know, there w[ere] a million things he could’ve done to ensure his
safety that he didn’t. Like, he’s trying to figure out how to use a
flare gun. I’m like who doesn’t know how to use a flare gun who’s in
the ocean? You’re in the open ocean and you’re sleeping? He didn’t
have his water anchor out. A million things that he did that were
stupid and it just made me mad.

If only Robert Redford had had Louis C.K. on his boat—imagine how much different (and funnier) that All Is Lost voyage could have been.